Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A sweet baked food made of flour, liquid, eggs, and other ingredients, such as raising agents and flavorings.
- noun A flat rounded mass of dough or batter, such as a pancake that is baked or fried.
- noun A flat rounded mass of hashed or chopped food that is baked or fried; a patty.
- noun A shaped or molded piece, as of soap or ice.
- noun A layer or deposit of compacted matter.
- intransitive verb To cover or fill with a thick layer, as of compacted matter.
- intransitive verb To become formed into a compact or crusty mass.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stupid fellow; a noodle.
- noun A good thing; a dainty or delicacy, as in the phrase ‘cakes and ale’.
- noun A rich cake glazed and filled with nuts.
- To cackle, as geese.
- noun A flat or comparatively thin mass of baked dough; a thin loaf of bread.
- noun Specifically A light composition of flour, sugar, butter, and generally other ingredients, as eggs, flavoring substances, fruit, etc., baked in any form; distinctively, a flat or thin portion of dough so prepared and separately baked.
- noun In Scotland, specifically, an oatmeal cake, rolled thin and baked hard on a griddle.
- noun A small portion of batter fried on a griddle; a pancake or griddle-cake: as, buckwheat cakes.
- noun Oil-cake used for feeding cattle or as a fertilizer.
- noun Something made or concreted in the distinctive form of a cake; a mass of solid matter relatively thin and extended: as, a cake of soap.
- To form into a cake or compact mass.
- To concrete or become formed into a hard mass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To form into a cake, or mass.
- intransitive verb To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
- intransitive verb Prov. Eng. To cackle as a goose.
- noun A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- noun A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
- noun A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat
cakes . - noun A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high.
- noun (Zoöl) any species of flat sea urchins belonging to the Clypeastroidea.
- noun the refuse of flax seed, cotton seed, or other vegetable substance from which oil has been expressed, compacted into a solid mass, and used as food for cattle, for manure, or for other purposes.
- noun to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb UK, dialect, obsolete, intransitive To
cackle like agoose . - noun A
rich ,sweet dessertfood , typically made offlour ,sugar , andeggs and baked in anoven , and often covered inicing . - noun A
block of any of variousdense materials. - noun slang A
trivially easytask orresponsibility ; from apiece of cake . - noun slang
Money . - verb transitive
Coat (something) with acrust of solid material.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)
- noun baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
- noun small flat mass of chopped food
- verb form a coat over
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Oh, that last cake looks so beautiful and so good. *dreams of sugary creme cake*
Show and Tell Jen 2009
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The Chewy cake doesn't even yell *cake* to me, it could be a playdough creation.
Choose the Cake Wrecks Cover! Jen 2009
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Yah, and i had gastric attack (my bro reckons it's because of the standing up for 2 hours thing) Yeah, so Mr Hong gave me some cake thing, which i politely just took this small little bit, and he was like 'take the whole piece!' me 'no la ...' * pinches off this small bit of cake* hong 'see! contaminated already! eat arh! take it!'
yanxious Diary Entry yanxious 2005
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Although many varieties of cake can be made, they may all be put into two general classes: _sponge cake_ and _butter cake_.
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*takez a english applol hat, sum red velvet cake, adn blak forest cake*
He sez hes - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Praise cheesus!) and broccoli tart thing that was pretty tasty and some vegan german apple cake (yumyum) they didn’t have any chocolate carrot cake .
anasthesia Diary Entry anasthesia 2004
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And year after year, my mum always tried picking a different cake --- She never understood, why I wouldn’t eat my own cake --- Now she just thinks, I don’t like cake but I do actually
ugotsoul Diary Entry ugotsoul 2002
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A simple fruit cake is one of the best ways to use up summer fruits - and I mean fruit cake as in cake packed with fresh fruit, not the rum-drenched holiday cake.
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A simple fruit cake is one of the best ways to use up summer fruits - and I mean fruit cake as in cake packed with fresh fruit, not the rum-drenched holiday cake.
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The recipe for the pumpkin cake is found hereand the recipe for the white chocolate cream cheese frosting is found here.
IRON CUPCAKE EARTH: CHEESE-Vote for Me! Melissa 2008
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But the concept of a “counter cake,” she adds, is far older: “It’s something that’s been around for a long time, to have a pound cake or something that you can have a little slice of in the afternoon.”
How Snack Cakes Sold a New Generation on an Old Concept Jaya Saxena 2023
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A cake narrative is a story that critiques a thing while also offering you all the pleasures of that thing, the pleasures that the narrative itself seems to want you to distrust.
Let’s Talk About Magic Dick Theory in ‘Dune’ Brian Phillips 2024
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If you don't know, a dump cake is taking 2 16oz cans of fruit, putting them in a cake dish, then covering in box cake mix (just the powder, not the eggs and butter and milk), then adding pats of butter over the whole thing. And bake.
How do dump cakes work? sabertoothdiego 2025
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I was introduced to a dessert by the name of Pumpkin Crunch, which I absolutely loved. I shared the recipe with someone or made it idk and they were like “oh yeah that’s a dump cake!” I still like it as long as I never think of it called that way
Does any actually LIKE “dump cobbler”? Jxb1000 2025
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With a fluffy body from the cake mix and gooey indulgent filling from the canned peaches, this peach dump cake is somewhere between a cake and a cobbler.
Peach Dump Cake Southern Living’s editorial guidelines 2024
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The age-old dump cake uses only four ingredients: a box of cake pre-mix, one can each of cherry pie filling and crushed pineapples, and one stick of butter.
How Dump Cakes Got Their Rather Unappealing Name - Tasting Table Kerry Hayes 2024
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This chocolate dump cake recipe fits right in with busy schedules; it requires no sifting, whisking or decorating. Just dump, stir, bake and serve this decadent dessert.
Chunky Tomato Salsa Katie Bandurski 2024
lampbane commented on the word cake
The cake is a lie!
May 15, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word cake
With proper tools, 'cake' can become a verb.
November 18, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word cake
OK now, I'm all for the wonderful adaptability of the English language, but that just made me wince.
November 18, 2009
sionnach commented on the word cake
I don't see why. What other verb would you suggest in the sentence:
"The soles of Camilla's riding boots were caked with mud"?
November 18, 2009
dontcry commented on the word cake
A Lenin wiener? That's NOT a cake.
November 18, 2009
bilby commented on the word cake
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
November 18, 2009
reesetee commented on the word cake
But I do love that Cakewrecks blog.
November 18, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word cake
sionnach -- not that usage, but "a lot of people cake"...
I guess it's just similar to "a lot of people golf" vs. "a lot of people play golf" ... but still, I shuddered when I saw it first.
November 18, 2009
bilby commented on the word cake
A lot of people play cake v A lot of people cake.
November 18, 2009
sionnach commented on the word cake
I'm afraid to ask what a Lenin wiener is. Is it like a Bondi bay cigar? Does "good in the Sacher torte" count as a sweet tooth fairy? Mmmm. Torte.
"A lot of people pat a cake" versus "a lot of people play patty-cake"? Mmmm. Cake. Mmmm. Fufluns.
It strikes me that it must be about time for our first marathon of phone umbrage-taking here on Wordnik. So, bilby, I take umbrage at the sneering tone of your last comment.
November 18, 2009
rolig commented on the word cake
Pro, pretty much any English noun can become a verb – can be verbed, as some would say illustratively – not that that's always a good thing. Please don't umbrage me for saying that.
November 18, 2009
sionnach commented on the word cake
"pretty much any English noun can become a verb"
Rolig has made what appears on the surface to be a very rash statement. I'm trying to imagine how this might work with, say, "nudibranch", "antidisestablishmentarianism", "cliometrics", or "transubstantiation". But am suffering a complete failure of the imagination.
November 18, 2009
dontcry commented on the word cake
*takes some umbrage over the Lenin wiener cake*
November 18, 2009
gangerh commented on the word cake
'Would you prefer a piece of park or a walk in the cake?'
'Mmm. That's not as easy it sounds.'
November 18, 2009
gangerh commented on the word cake
Nicely,'nach! One of those mischievous false teeth fairies!
November 18, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word cake
Bilby, did you mean "play Cake?" I'm fond of their song "Short Skirt/Long Jacket."
November 18, 2009
bilby commented on the word cake
There's a promising level of miscommunication in this thread that gives me heart that the old Wordie spirit is not dead. It may be caked in death, tonight wearing a fashionable short skirt/long jacket, and howling over various torte-ologies, but isna nae deid.
Don't nudibranch me, bro!
November 18, 2009
uselessness commented on the word cake
The old Wordie spirit is still very much lifed.
November 19, 2009
reesetee commented on the word cake
I am highly shoelaced by this conversation.
November 24, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word cake
"From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka ("cake") . . . ."
Remind me to think twice before I call something a "piece of cake."
December 11, 2018
qms commented on the word cake
One of the nicest Swedish deserts is a big sponge cake coated in whipped cream and studded with strawberries. In my wife’s family this is called by a name that translates to “maternal grandmother’s cake” but phonetically it is “murmur’s caca.” This give pause to those who are first introduced to it.
December 11, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word cake
Yum! In Latvian, the word for cake sounds a bit like "kooks."
December 11, 2018